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Shane Clay's New Mix Is a Dance-Obsessed Hacker's Dream

Shane Clay's New Mix Is a Dance-Obsessed Hacker's Dream

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By VEXT MagazineJul 05, 2025
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We have acquired an exclusive mix by stalking Shane Clay's computer through the Soulseek network. His social media and his most classified releases have been plastered all over the internet. In turn, he has agreed to publish this mix.

If you're in sync with the underground music world, you might have heard of the producer, artist and curator Shane Clay. Straying away from the industrious status quo, Shane Clay has been incubating a dance-ready array of sounds with some of your favorite artists. Here lies a genre-spanning umbrella of tracks that include everything from an unreleased Ayesha Erotica rap track to a sped-up mix of Vanessa Carlton's iconic 2002 hit "A Thousand Miles."

Listen to "Classified Documents" below.

Shane Clay is a producer, artist and curator based in Los Angeles.

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